A Day In Her Life Episode 138: A Day In Her Life with Layla Shaikley - Founder and Mom of Three
A Day In Her Life with Layla Shaikley – Efficient, Full, Emotionally Regulated Days as a Founder and Mom of Three
What does it look like to build a venture-backed tech company, raise three young kids, recover from a major injury, and stay emotionally steady through it all?
In this episode of A Day In Her Life, Ellie sits down with Layla Shaikley, co-founder of Wise Systems, writer, and mom of three (ages 3, 5, and 7). Layla shares how predictability, emotional regulation, and ruthless prioritization are what make her high-capacity life sustainable, not hustle or perfection.
This is a powerful, grounding conversation about ambition, motherhood, and learning how to regulate yourself so you don’t burn everything down when things get hard.
In this episode, we cover:
- Why emotional regulation is the real foundation of high performance, and how Layla thinks about passing that skill to her kids
- The predictable morning routine that allows her to work East Coast hours while parenting on the West Coast
- How she structures work around goals, not tasks, and why feeling “behind” is often a sign you’ve lost sight of outcomes
- Why proximity determines extracurriculars (and why that’s not “failing your kids”)
- What evenings actually look like with three young kids, and how she lets chaos happen without reacting to it
- The systems she uses to buy back time, from outsourcing household work to using AI as a thinking assistant
- Why this season is about choosing three priorities only, and being okay with everything else waiting
If you’re a working mom trying to hold ambition, caregiving, health, and sanity at the same time, this episode will help you breathe a little deeper and think more clearly about what actually matters.
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